Java development with an iPhone touch pad for the Atari 2600 from an urban hip-hop perspective

Holla if you hear me…

While browsing and responding to my comments I see I’ve been titled “Cliff ‘The Holler'”. I think it’s funny, especially since I just assume I have no readers here. Of course the title comes from how I’ve been signing off each post. While I hate catch phrases, I try to keep my reading interesting because I know how boring technical stuff can be in prose. I guess I’m going to have mix it up a little more from now on to avoid being redundant and dry. I’m not trying to be popular but it would be cool if my site could attract a small community of readers. You see I got some things happening on my side of the wire that I think would be of interest to many. Over the past couple years I’ve managed to:

make my Linux desktop look just like Mac OSX

install and play with Sun’s 3D looking glass Linux front end

write some simple plugins for Amarok, the best media player on the planet

learn a little about KDE’s DCOP interface

Pick up Groovy and build a few example components from the site using custom Groovy Ant builders

author and deploy a GRails app

Write a plugin for Maven2

Setup Maven Proxy as an in office repository

rescue a small child from a burning building

Any one of the above accomplishments on its own isn’t worth much. (That is except for the last one, which isn’t entirely true. There was a burning building and there was a small child and I did rescue something.) Overall the effort that went into each and the knowledge that was gleamed as a result is what I want to share. Just about everything I mentioned above happened before I started my site (…even the child and burning building thing. Ok, the child and I may not have ever been in the building but its the rescue that counts right?) but I may go back and revisit what I’ve done and share some of what is possible with today’s technology. So if you like what I’ve written so far, tell a friend to tell a friend. Then tell that friend’s friend to tell they sister. (Nobody knows how to spread the word like lil-sis! Remember that time you got spanked in the morning right before school and all of your friends and teachers knew before you even got off the bus? That’s a lil-sister at work!) After a while word might get out and I’ll have more than just a handful of return readers. Remember, I’m just getting warmed up here. I got a lot of material to cover and each day I’m trying something new. Thanx for reading. Hit me wit’ the hee… hee-hee-hee-hee-haw…

(Explicit familiarity with Missy Elliot is required to decipher the above salutation. I know, it’s wack, but I’m just tryin’ to break a trend here.)